Nick learns to blog

又开始忙碌了

又变回到on beach的状态了，我不是很喜欢这样，因为太闲了。人一闲就容易做出浪费时间的事，同时也是浪费生命，尤其是对我这种没什么自制力，又比较懒惰的人来说。

I get the message that I won't go to OZ at the right day before the flight. I feel very bad. How can life be like this?

But...

Life is hard, changing happens all the time.

We can complain, we can accept, or we can find a way to handle it.

I am going to Melbourne this weekend, hope it will be a wonderful trip.

The exciting part is to feel foreign culture, but it also means I have to miss the last day of AgileChina09 Conference.

You will always lose something when gain something <-- is it right?

As an editor (part time) of InfoQ China, I always need to dump content of news from the web page and copy to Google doc. Then after translating, share the doc to the other editor for reviewing. To make it less painful, I wrote a Firefox add-on to automate this process.

At the very beginning I just extract the news and copy it to clipboard. Recently I've implemented uploading to Google doc.

Basically, this addon extracts news title/abstract/content from html without irrelevant ads or other noise, uploads the news to google doc and finally opens this google doc automatically. You can also use it as a way to backup/collect your favorite articles from InfoQ.

It only works for URL started with  www.infoq.com/news or www.infoq.com/articles. You can download and install it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/12778#version-0.6 if interested. Also, you need a Google account to access Google doc.